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Published on Dec 26, 2017

Syria faces a difficult choice: either the government and the moderate opposition sit down at the negotiating table to restore peace to the country , or the country is plunged into a new round of fratricidal war. Moscow and Damascus would like the parties to the conflict to choose the first option — the path to national reconciliation.

Monday, December 25, President Vladimir Putin discussed with members of the security Council of the Russian Federation the issues of the Syrian settlement and preparation for Congress of National dialogue Syria, to be held in Sochi on 29-30 January 2018. About it has informed journalists a press-the Secretary of the Kremlin Dmitry Peskov.

Analysts wonder whether the Kremlin and the Assad government will be able to convince the moderate opposition to sit down at a round table to discuss the future of The country such a dialogue is long overdue, experts believe. The country, exhausted by the years of civil war, is in need of regeneration. And without compromise of all political forces it won't be possible to achieve it.

Head of the Syrian opposition delegation at the eighth round of talks in Astana Ahmad Toma said that the opposition leaders will hold consultations on participation in the Congress of the national dialogue. "We would like to hold consultations with our military and political leaders in order to make a final decision on our position," he said.

Russian Deputy foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov said that the countries of the region, including Egypt and Iraq, as well as China expressed interest in the presence of Syrian national dialogue as observers at the Congress. As for Washington, it is still waiting for a special invitation. And Russia is ready to invite the United States as an observer to the Congress.

So far, the US and Israel are not particularly enthusiastic about the upcoming round table. They are most likely more satisfied with the continuation of the war and further destabilization of Syria. Washington and tel Aviv still believe that the Assad regime can be overthrown by force of arms Congress (lat. congredior, congressus sum-to come together) is the name of various assemblies, conferences, congresses, parliaments and political parties in different countries of the world.Syria (Arab. سوريا), full name-Syrian Arab Republic (Arab Republic). الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhuriya al-Arabiya al-Suriya) is a state in the middle East bordering Lebanon and Israel in the South — West, Jordan in the South, Iraq in the East and Turkey in the North. Washed by the Mediterranean sea to the West.Modern Syrian statehood has a little over 70 years, but civilization originated here in the IV Millennium BC Capital — Damascus, one of the oldest permanently inhabited cities in the world. In addition, Damascus is also the oldest of all modern capitals in the world[9].Syria has a population of 18.5 million people (2015). Almost 93% of Syrians are Muslims, 6% of the population of the country adhere to different directions of Christianity. The official language is Arabic.Since 1963, the Republic has been under the authority of the Syrian Baath party and its allies. Since 2011, there has been a civil war in Syria between supporters of the official government (Baath and Bashar al — Assad), armed opposition, Kurds isolated from the rest of Syria, and in 2014-the IG and a large number of other Islamist groups.War-a conflict between political entities — States, tribes, political groups, and so on — taking place on the basis of various claims, in the form of armed confrontation, military (combat) actions between their armed forces.As a rule, war is a means of imposing one's will on one's opponent. One political entity tries to change the behavior of another by force, force him to give up his freedom, ideology, property rights, to give resources: territory, water area and more.